Speak vs Tutor Lily
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Speak
This app uses AI to help you improve your speaking fluency in various languages. Engage in simulated conversations, receive instant feedback on pronunciation and intonation, and track your progress to become a confident speaker.
- AI-powered speaking practice
- Real-life conversation simulation
- Instant pronunciation feedback
- Personalized progress tracking
- Learn Spanish, French, English, and more
- Immersive lessons
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Get ready to take your language skills to the next level with Speak, the ultimate language learning app focusing on improving your speaking abilities. Powered by cutting-edge AI technology, Speak ensures that you gain fluency by engaging in real-life conversations and receiving instant feedback. Whether you are learning Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, English, French or Italian, Speak's AI-powered lessons will have you learning a new language fast. With Speak, you'll feel like you have a personal language tutor right in your pocket. Our app provides immersive speaking practice sessions that simulate real-life scenarios, allowing you to become confident in your conversational skills. The advanced AI function analyzes your speech, providing a valuable assessment of pronunciation, intonation, and fluency. Say goodbye to those language barriers as you receive real-time feedback, enabling you to make necessary adjustments and improve your speaking skills on the spot. Our comprehensive language learning curriculum is available for Spanish, English, French, Italian, Japanese and Korean learners, ensuring that you become fluent. Whether you're a beginner or an advanced learner, Speak caters to your individual needs and helps you progress at your own pace. You'll love the personalized progress tracking, which helps you identify areas that need improvement, allowing you to focus your efforts effectively. Speak's method is simple: STEP 1: Do a real language learning lesson! Learn real-life, essential phrases with your dedicated local teacher. STEP 2: Practice speaking the language! Repeat the learned phrases until you can speak without thinking twice! STEP 3: AI Tutor provides personalized language feedback! With the latest AI technology, you can practice anywhere and anytime! Get real-time feedback on pronunciations, grammar, and much more. STEP 4: Real conversations in your chosen language! Now put what you've learned into real-life situations and speak with confidence! No more boring textbooks or one-sided conversations! With Speak, you'll experience interactive and engaging language practice that feels like a real-life conversation. Break free from traditional language learning and download Speak now! Gain fluency, receive real-time feedback, and become a confident speaker in Spanish, English, French, Italian, Japanese and Korean. There are plenty of other language apps out there, but Speak's key difference comes down to getting you speaking Spanish, English, French, Italian, Japanese or Korean out loud on day 1. SPEAK MEMBERSHIP Speak offers both monthly and annual auto-renewing subscriptions. Become a Speak Member to gain unlimited access to all courses, singles, review material, and other content within Speak. The subscription will automatically renew unless turned off in your iTunes Account Settings at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can go to your iTunes Account settings to manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew. Your iTunes Account will be charged when the purchase is confirmed. If you subscribe before your free trial ends, the rest of your free trial period will be forfeited as soon as your purchase is confirmed. Terms of Service: https://usespeak.com/tos Privacy Policy: https://usespeak.com/privacy License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Tutor Lily
Engage in natural conversations to build real language fluency. This AI tutor remembers your progress and interests, adapting sessions to your goals and mistakes. Practice real-world scenarios and receive gentle corrections for effective learning.
- Natural conversation practice
- Personalized learning based on goals
- Real-time, gentle corrections
- Smart vocabulary building
- Adaptive difficulty levels
- Practice real-world scenarios
- Pronunciation coaching
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How long have you been telling yourself you'll learn English? Spanish? French? Let's make this the year it actually happens. Not from 400 owl reminders. Not from tapping pictures of fruits and animals. From real conversations — from your very first day. You'll be speaking with confidence in weeks, not years. Just 10 minutes a day with me. You speak or type. I match your level in real time. Use your target language, your native language, or a mix of both as you get more comfortable. MISTAKES ARE WELCOME It's actually how we learn. Make all your mistakes with me first. Then you won't have to make them with real people. When you slip up, I don't shame you. No red Xs. No buzzers. I give you real-time feedback on grammar, pronunciation, and word choice. I use a three-step method I call the Lily Method: I nudge, then I hint, and only then do I give you the answer. Learners fix their own mistakes 46% of the time with this method (Lyster & Ranta research). Other apps just feed you the correct answer — so you learn nothing. With me, you learn it because YOU found the answer. The biggest mistake you can make is being afraid to make one. Duolingo punishes you for mistakes — I reward you for making them. LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU LIKE Whatever you want to talk about — I'm like a friend who happens to speak 50+ languages. The movie you watched last weekend. Your day at work. The trip you're planning. Your favorite K-drama. The book you can't put down. The song stuck in your head. Personal conversations stick. Generic lessons don't. Pack me for the trip. I'll be your travel buddy who already speaks the language. Want to practice a specific moment — ordering at a Parisian café, checking into a Tokyo hotel, meeting your partner's parents? Just ask me to roleplay it. I REMEMBER YOU Other apps forget you the moment you close them. I don't. I remember the word you stumbled on last Tuesday. I remember your sister's wedding next month. I remember you work in marketing and your dog's name is Bean. Session 100 with me is smarter than session 1 — because I've been paying attention. You told me in onboarding you have a trip to Italy? Today let's talk about what you're packing. You mentioned you're nervous about a presentation? Walk me through it — I'll help you fix the rough spots. EARN STREAKS FOR REAL PRACTICE Streaks earned by real messages, not by tapping a button to keep a number alive. All the motivation. None of the guilt trips. No hearts. No leaderboards. No "you broke your streak!" notifications. 50+ LANGUAGES, NATIVE ACCENTS English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian, Hindi, Turkish, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Greek — and 40+ more. Each with native accent variants (British or American English, Latin American or European Spanish, etc.) — so you sound like you actually live there, not like a textbook. STOP STUDYING. START SPEAKING. Babbel scripts you. ChatGPT forgets you. A human tutor costs $30-60 an hour and needs scheduling. I'm available 24/7. I'm 50× cheaper than a private tutor. I remember every word you've ever said to me. And I'll never make you feel stupid for not knowing something — that's the whole reason you're here. Five minutes on your coffee break. Thirty on the train home. I fit your day, not the other way around. Open the app. Say hi. I'll take it from there. — Lily Privacy Policy: https://tutorlily.com/privacy License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Tutor Lily at none against Speak's shown. Speak's advantage is ratings volume (62K vs 239) and review sentiment (66% vs 50%). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Speak sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per month and Tutor Lily sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Speak holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Speak has 62K ratings behind it against 239, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of Speak's written reviews are positive against 50% of Tutor Lily's.
Speak ships an update weekly, Tutor Lily fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Speak | Tutor Lily |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (62K ratings) — better | 4.6 (239 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 65.8% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 62K — better | 239 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #19 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 246 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Speakeasy Labs | Tutor Lily Inc. |
Customer experience
Speak
Tutor Lily
User reviews
Speak
From 62K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Excellent for practicing speaking
- 👍 Customizable and practical content
- 🤖 Helpful AI tutor with good feedback
- 📚 Covers a variety of useful expressions
- 🕰️ Bite-sized lessons for busy schedules
Room to improve
- 💰 Expensive subscription cost
- 🤖 Voice recognition can be inaccurate
- 🕰️ Timed lessons feel rushed
- 🔍 Limited language options
- 🐛 Occasional app crashes and bugs
Tutor Lily
From 239 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great for language practice
- 👍 AI is personable and engaging
- 👍 Provides corrections and explanations
- 👍 Wide range of language options
- 👍 Natural sounding AI voice
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and glitches
- 🐛 Freezes often
- 🐛 Hands-free mode is glitchy
- 🐛 Incorrect translations at times
- 🐛 Robotic and artificial voices
Bugs and requests
Speak
Reported bugs
3 issues- Unable to record during lessons
- Lesson progress not saving properly
- Subscription issues and billing problems
Requested features
5 requests- Add more advanced and specialized lessons
- Improve organization of saved content
- Provide offline mode for lessons
- Allow more customization of AI tutor's tone
- Integrate text-to-speech feature
Tutor Lily
Reported bugs
27 issues- App settings change and can't contact support
- Recent update removed roleplay/topics
- App is buggy
- Makes users answer same questions each time
- App locked behind paywall without notice
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- Had to give payment info for free trial
- Stopped working after paying for pro
- No way to restore purchases
- Automatic recording function is very poor
- Correct statements understood and written incorrectly
- App has loading dots without allowing use
- Hands-free mode isn't useful
- Translations are incorrect at times
- Speak option only works best with built-in phone voice to text
- Cancelled subscription but still got charged
- No customer support reply
- Voices are very robotic
- Questions asked are very artificial
- Hands-free mode is glitchy and poor
- Message disappears/gets deleted when clicking to see mistakes
- Freezes on 'evaluating sentence…'
- Loading dots forever
- Resetting conversation is only fix
- Doesn't change input language to German for voice
- Fails to record first response or delay in submitting
- Doesn't know how to use formal 'You'
- No sound on iPhone 13
Requested features
18 requests- Option to watch ads for more messages
- Ability to see pre-corrected version of messages
- Add Icelandic language
- Improve hands-free mode
- More natural sounding voices
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- Fix slow audio for German and French
- Provide more phrases for repetition
- Better support for absolute beginners
- Allow users to restore purchases
- Improve automatic recording function
- Fix formal 'You' usage
- Fix delay in recording submissions
- Allow viewing of original message before correction
- Offer a cheaper alternative
- Fix sound issues on iPhone 13
- Improve input language switching
- Make it easier to use while driving
- Increase chat limit or offer unlimited option
In-app purchases
Speak
- Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$17.991 Month
- Monthly Premium7 Days trial3 variants$17.991 Month
- Monthly Premium Plus7 Days trial$39.991 Month
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- Annual Subscription7 Days trial3 variants$83.991 Year
- Annual Premium7 Days trial$83.991 Year
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$99.991 Year
- Annual Premium Plus7 Days trial3 variants$164.991 Year
Tutor Lily
- Weekly PRO $1$0.997 Days
- Weekly PRO Membership$4.997 Days
- Monthly PRO Membership$9.991 Month
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- Monthly PRO Membership$11.991 Month
- Monthly PRO Membership$19.991 Month
- Monthly PRO Membership$29.991 Month
- Annual PRO Discount3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Annual PRO Discount3 Days trial$49.991 Year
- 6-Month PRO Membership$56.996 Months
- Annual PRO Membership3 Days trial$69.991 Year
- Annual PRO Discount3 Days trial$71.991 Year
- Annual PRO Membership$83.991 Year
- Annual PRO Membership3 Days trial$83.991 Year
- Annual PRO Membership3 Days trial$89.991 Year
- Annual PRO Membership7 Days trial$169.991 Year







